...Novel Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl: A Novel. , 2012. Print. The abuse of society’s gender roles and the stigma that surrounds these roles are at the core of Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl. The main character, Amy Dunne, uses the fact that she, a woman from an ‘elite’ background, married to an unfaithful husband will be easily seen as a victim in the eyes of both the media and law enforcement. We as a society have come to a unified conclusion that women are the inferior gender and despite that being incorrect, women and men differ as victims in issues such as domestic violence with the stigma of men being labeled the abusers. The author uses the husband’s infidelity to help prove that society will immediately lean towards believing he is guilty because he already shows to be a ‘bad person’. As I read the novel, I too began to believe that Amy Dunne’s husband was guilty of her kidnap and murder. The author plays well on the readers apt to lean towards that conclusion because the reader can’t help but feel sympathy for a wife who has been cheated on and mistreated. Not once did I think Amy would have planned the whole thing. Women aren’t seen as the abusers or as the antagonist; they are usually seen as the damsel in distress. The novel was, in my opinion, an excellent read. Not only did the author play on my feelings by making Amy Dunne relatable, but made me realize that I too held on to the stigma of gender roles of men and women in these kinds of situations. The novel was so...
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...St. Helen’s College 2012 Autumn Term Calendar Week 1 Mon Sep 03 Tues Wed Sep 04 Sep 05 Staff training & preparation day All day Y5/6 to Paralympic Games Staff training & preparation day Term begins 8:15 – 8:40 coffee & croissants for 1C parents and staff 7:30 p.m. Meet the Teacher evening - Year 4-6 parents Tog Day for Relay for Life 7:30 p.m. Meet the Teacher evening - Year 3 parents 8:15 – 8:40 coffee & croissants for 1H parents and staff 8:15 coffee followed by 6L class assembly 8:15 – 8:40 coffee & croissants for 3H parents and staff All day Y5 to Hampton Court 8:15 – 8:40 coffee & croissants for R1 parents and staff 8:15 coffee followed by 2M class assembly 7 p.m. Prizegiving at Winston Churchill Hall 12 – 2 p.m. PA Welcome event for new parents Scholastic Book Fair arrives 8:15 – 8:40 coffee & croissants for 3B parents and staff Scholastic book Fair departs Harvest Festival Rehearsal at All Saints 9 – 11 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Upper School Harvest Festival at All Saints’ Church 6 – 9 p.m. Y2-6 parents’ evening 7 – 9 p.m. Lower School parents’ evening (N, R, Y1) All day Y3 to St. Alban’s Cathedral 8:15 – 8:40 coffee & croissants for R2 parents and staff Harvest Festival at Lower School: 8:45 a.m. Nursery; 9:15 a.m. Reception; 9:45 a.m. Y1 6 – 9 p.m. Y2-6 parents’ evening 7 – 9 p.m. Lower School parents’ evening (N, R, Y1) School at Work Open Morning 8:15 coffee followed by 6S class assembly All day Y4 to Roald Dahl Museum 4 – 6 p.m. Lower School parents’ evening (N, R, Y1) 8:15...
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...encounter. Being the mystery aficionados that we are, we’ve journeyed right from the intrepid and meddling ways of Scooby Doo and the gang to the nail biting turn of events in Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’. Our thirst...
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...The main character in Gone Girl, Nick Dunne, came home on the day of his fifth anniversary to find that his wife was missing. Everyone was curious to know what happened to her as it continues to spread throughout the press. Amy, Nick Dunne’s wife, is a well-known member of their community and people begin to speculate that that Nick took part in her sudden disappearance because of his awkwardness about the situation. Nick begins to have flashbacks of his marriage after his wife disappears. In the past, they both lost their jobs and moved from New York to Missouri. Nick’s behavior began to change and started to act lazy, distant, and unfaithful. Detective Rhonda Boney, who is trying to find out who murdered his wife, discovers evidence of...
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...dolls, and extra-ordinarily beautiful girls, came about the idea of the female body. Whether you are a believer of creationalism, scientology, or evolutionism, somehow we all came about with the perception of the “perfect” female. Women have always been seen, and portrayed as a sex symbol, and usually the disobedient one. Dating back to B.C and the story of Adam and Eve, Eve was the naked one who bit into the fruit that god told her was forbidden. Why couldn’t it have been Adam that caused such scandal, and was the cause for destruction, and crime in the world, and not Eve? From the believed beginning of time, to present day, women have really only progressed a small amount up the social ladder. Today, women are looked down upon, if they are slightly more over weight then what is considered “normal,” if they are “underweight”, “darker skin color”, too “pale”, “flat chested”, big boned, “thick,” or because of their ethnicities and backgrounds. So what exactly defines the “perfect female?” Is it the girls featured on “Girls Gone Wild” in Cancun, or the half naked models posing for Victoria’s Secret? Or is it the perfectly put together “Miss America” pageant queens? Or is it the Hollywood actresses with billion dollar dresses, and priceless jewelry? Or the well toned, well defined professional team cheerleaders, and dancers we watch? WE, speaking for us “average” women, who often tend to idolize, and carry pieces of all these girls within us, and envy them, for not being...
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...I have chosen to write about the TV show Drop Dead Diva, since it is my latest Netflix obsession. I am almost done binge watching all six seasons, and I am hooked. The show itself is not what I would call violent, since it is about an aspiring model who is killed and returns as an overweight lawyer, and has to live out the rest of that life; it’s more of a girl’s comedy-drama. In one of the episodes, Jane, who is the main character, is helping out a client who is trying to sue a “girls gone wild” producer for releasing a video of his 18 year old daughter showing her breasts. While in mediation, to try to settle, the producer makes a comment about his daughter that was repulsive and the father punched the producer in the face. He let out his anger, not only for is daughters negligence, but his anger towards the producer, through a violent act of physical harm. The show is based in California, at a law firm, and both the father and the producer in this scene are white male. The father seems to be in his 40’s and the producer in his 30’s. The scene takes place at the esteemed law firm, in the conference room. Since this show is considered a drama, I think that, by having an angry father hit the producer, it is scratching a needed itch in this scenario. Nobody wants to see their child embarrassed, especially when it involves nudity that is about to be displayed in store worldwide. The producer is a jerk, and the comment about the daughter’s breasts were inappropriate. I think...
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...to pressure from PETA. In response to aggressive campaigns, all three have issued strict humane animal handling guidelines to suppliers of beef, pork, and chicken and enforce those standards with unannounced audits of production farms and processing plants. PETA has been known to use pretty crude tactics. In one instance, a viral ad featuring scantily clad women with cow udders instead of breasts was distributed in the UK as part of a campaign against milk drinking and production. PETA had hoped to air a television version of the ad on the ABC network in the United States during the Super Bowl, but was told the execution “falls outside boundaries of good taste.” Mimicking television shows like Girls Gone Wild, in which women are encouraged to disrobe for cameras, PETA’s “Milk Gone Wild” ad shows models dancing in a bar, surrounded by men drinking glasses of milk. When the women tear...
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...Janet Vargas SOC 303 12/5/17 Extra Credit Assignment 2 The film that I watched is Gone Girl which is about a woman in a troubled marriage who goes missing. Gone Girl captures the misconception of marriage, the capacity of manipulative and destructive behavior, and the criminal education that can be obtained from crime and all while playing on the effect media has of what is fact or fake. Deviance is a behavior, trait, belief, or another characteristic that violates a norm and causes a (negative) reaction. How the media portrays deviant behavior in the film is that with the main character of Amy with the occurrence of the media focusing on an attractive white female victim or a white female perpetrator. In the film, there is a major issue with media coverage criminal investigations as it ignores the victims based on their situation of being the blame due to the public pressure encouraged by news media placed on police...
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...Mxxxxxxxx Oxxxxxxx ABMC Gone Girl was a film adaption of Gillian Flynn’s novel of the same title. It is a thrilling mystery about Nick Dunne’s wife, Amy, going missing and the way the events unfolded that results to a flurry of heavy evidences against Nick, how the media works, and a carefully crafted crime. Analyzing it from the attribution theory, when it comes to perception of the action, where the behavior is observed, the case got the attention of the media because Amy was famous for her parents’ children’s book series named Amazing Amy. Nick’s media appearances got the public misinterpreting his socially awkward, wary demeanor. The judgment of intention, the way he hesitantly smiled at the cameras rubbed off the wrong way, that his emotional responses weren’t normal for a man who just declared his wife missing. The media judged this as a telling signs of a sociopath. The attribution of the action, they connected his behavior to a sociopath therefore jumping to the conclusion that Nick might have killed his own wife. Spiral of silence was when he was plotting his next move. Internalizing all the things Amy hurled his way. He didn’t stand up for himself. He just let the media lashed out and tore his name apart. He didn’t protest when he was being called a sociopath, didn’t voice out how hard it was to be constantly hounded by the reporters and photographers. It affected his so much he started to isolate himself from everyone he knows, even his sister. But when he...
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...Juan Carlos Cornejo Professor Cooper English 1A September 20, 2010 Summary of “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool?” When a celebrity teen gets pregnant, people wonder how a nice and conscientious teen gets pregnant out of wedlock. In Cathy Gulli’s article “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool?” from Maclean’s Magazine published in Canada, Gulli shows the rise in pregnancies of teenage girls from fifteen to seventeen years old. With the movies and television displaying under aged teens getting pregnant makes yesterday’s stigma on teen mothers a “no big deal”. Statistics from both the United Sates and the United Kingdom shows a jump of underage teens getting pregnant in the last three years. With the rise in numbers, more “feminist motherhood movement” supports the efforts of these young teens. From new family structures and society views on greater issues makes these new motherhood teens capable on having both adolescents and motherhood. With all of these factors and many more ways of avoiding getting pregnant there seems to be no real reason for this to be happening. Today’s movies and television shows display teen pregnancy is a part of everyday culture and is not seen as a real issue. As more teens are getting pregnant, it becomes more socially acceptable and the media depicts it as not a big deal. But statistical data is showing a big rise for the first time in fifteen years. The two countries with the highest jump are both the United States and the United Kingdom...
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...what I could have done differently to change the course of time, life had taken us upon. Since that very day a chunk of my heart was ripped away, and broken into pieces… “Oh how I miss her so much.” It was the morning of October 24, 2010 when I first received the news. I had just come back from a trip to Orlando’s Halloween horror nights, where I had an amazing time and just in a matter of minutes my whole world had turned upside down. That very moment I could feel my face turned bright red with anger and tears started flowing uncontrollably down my chubby cheeks, as my mother gave away the news that my grandmother was on her death bed. I couldn’t believe how just the day before she sounded so perfectly fine, and today she can possibly be gone. I guess when it’s time to go, it’s time to go you really don’t get a choice when it comes to your own life’s destination. I immediately rushed to the hospital speeding to about 70 miles per hour, hoping I wouldn’t get a ticket. As I got closer I could feel my chest tightening as if somebody was squeezing it with their bare hands. The hospital’s smell seemed familiar prior to the months before, where my grandma spent countless times after having heart surgery and battling ulcerous colitis. It was a long walk down the narrow hall to the Intensive Care Unit, where all the patients looked the same. There were so many machines hooked to their fragile and lifeless bodies. Their only chance of survival depended on life support machines, without...
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...Gone Girl, Real Life and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Communication is a tricky thing especially in a marriage. Married people have their own unique difficulties within their relationships. There are many issues and challenges that a married couple can face, but communication is so vital to the success of their union, that one social psychologist, John Gottman, has made his reputation by studying the field of marital communications. In fact, he was able to study certain behaviors associated with communication and predict who would divorce with an accuracy of 90%! Gottman entitled his findings the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. These findings indicate that there were four processes, and these processes combined can signal an impending divorce. The four processes are the following: Contempt, criticism, defensiveness and stonewalling. Using examples from real life friends and family as well as the novel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, I will attempt to demonstrate the four processes. One clear indication of the first process, contempt is eye rolling. This shows that the eye roller feels that they are superior and contemptuous of their spouse. An excerpt from Gone Girl, a novel by Gillian Flynn shows the two main characters, Nick and Amy (husband and wife), who are involved in a difficult marriage. Here Nick is discussing his feelings on his marriage: I couldn't think of a decent thing I'd done in the past two years. In New York, those first few years of marriage, I'd...
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...114-5 April 28,2014 Gone Baby Gone The Principle of Utility can simply be stated as, actions are right in proportion to how much they promote happiness, and wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. In other words the theory is that it determines the rightness or wrongness of an action by its consequences, by the happiness or unhappiness it produces. The more people the outcome makes happy the better or rightness an action is regardless of the actions that took place to achieve this happiness. Capt. Jack Doyel, would play the part of the Utilitarian aspect of the movie. When Capt. Jack Doyel says "Thought you would've done that by now. You know why you haven't? Because you think this might be an irreparable mistake. Because deep inside you, you know it doesn't matter what the rules say. When the lights go out, and you ask yourself "is she better off here or better off there", you know the answer. And you always will. You... you could do a right thing here. A good thing. Men live their whole lives without getting this chance. You walk away from it, you may not regret it when you get home. You may not regret it for a year, but when you get to where I am, I promise you, you will. I'll be dead, you'll be old. But she... she'll be dragging around a couple of tattered, damaged children of her own, and you'll be the one who has to tell them you're sorry." you can see where his position about taking the girl is. He believe that the girl is better off with him and...
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...This film explores the concepts of the complexities of legal ethics and grey areas. There were many situations in this film that displayed “grey area cases”. The first example was when Remmy Bressant admitted to planting evidence. Though this is legally wrong, morally, he did what he thought was the best for the child. He said that he only did it because he wanted to give the child another chance at life. Another situation that dealt with legal ethics was when Patrick shot and killed the man who molested Johnny. Obviously, you cannot kill someone who raises both of their arms. However, morally, he did what he wanted to. Morally, he thought that he deserved to die. And finally, the most “grey” of all situations was when Lieutenant Doyle and Remmy Bressant teamed up together. Doyle kidnapped a child. It is against the law to kidnap a child. Just because morally, it may have been the best for Amanda, it does not make it legal. I think that there is a very fine line between always adhering to the rules and going with our morals. The thing is that, our moral are somewhat based on the rules set by society. We form our morals based off societal norms thus, most of the time, by adhering to your morals, you are also adhering to the laws. However, we can see that in some cases this is not true. Therefore, I believe that you should adhere to the rules. Everyone’s morals are different. So, if everyone were to follow their morals over the law, it would all become too chaotic. People would...
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...“Gone with the Wind” is a story about life of Scarlett O’hara living down south during and after the Civil War. Written in 1936, by author Margaret Mitchell. Only being eighteen years old in the beginning of the book, Scarlett is still a very strong, stubborn, young woman who gets her way. Scarlett lives a very simple life, in the south with a lot of money on a plantation named Tara. When the civil war begins, Scarlett’s mother dies of disease and her father goes insane because of her death. All the slaves are then freed, leaving the plantation empty, and Scarlett to do all the work. When the taxes rise 300 dollars, Scarlett is desperate to find a way to pay them. She promises herself that there’s only one way to make money; she must lie, cheat, steal, or kill to make sure no one goes hungry again There is talk of a Barbecue at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes’ plantation, down the road from Tara. Scarlett meets Gerald O’hara on the road to ask if the rumor Mammy, her slave, had told her is true. That Ashley Wilkes is going to ask his cousin Melanie to marry him. Scarlett is heartbroken that the man of her dreams is marrying someone else. When she arrives at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett is the center of attention, all of the men, even those who have girlfriends, talk to Scarlett. She is the most popular girl there. Melanie and Ashley talk of their marriage as they overlook the garden. Scarlett is sitting beneath a tree with all the men surrounding her, enjoying her time until she spies Ashley...
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